The Nigerian government has expressed its willingness to engage in collaborative initiatives aimed at promoting job creation within the country.
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Muhammad Dingyadi, articulated the government’s commitment to collaborating with civil society organizations on Wednesday in Abuja.
Dingyadi made the statement during a meeting with a consortium of non-governmental organizations affiliated with the United Nations NGO Committee on Social Development, led by Daniel Black, the National Head.
The Minister emphasized the importance of generating innovative strategies aimed at creating employment opportunities specifically for the unemployed youth.
According to him, the objectives of the Federal Government, along with its initiatives in this domain, are aimed at ensuring that individuals secure employment that they can genuinely claim as their own. The focus is on facilitating opportunities for self-establishment, rather than confining efforts to traditional white-collar roles. Furthermore, these jobs are intended to generate significant employment prospects for our youth.
“Our mandate is to create opportunities for jobs and to ensure the youths of the country are gainfully employed through several other means of engagement.
“We can collaborate to work towards creating jobs, very safe jobs for that matter, for our dear young men and women in the country,” he said.
The leader of the group, Daniel Black has indicated that they will participate in the 63rd session of the United Nations Commission for Social Development, which is scheduled to take place in February 2025 in New York. During this session, they intend to share Nigeria’s experiences in social development.
He said that in preparation for participation in that Session, the group would hold a United Nations Social Development workshop on Thursday, 30th January in Abuja.
The meeting aims to foster collaboration between the government and Civil Society Organisations to increase and improve the social development indicators in Nigeria.
“At the end of that workshop, we are going to develop a report that we will be presenting in New York during the 63rd session of the United Nations Commission for Social Development.
“The report will highlight the reality of social development in Nigeria, and we will also be mentioning the roles that different parastatals and government Ministries are playing so that these social development indicators are improved.”
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